Also 5 stryche. [f. STRICK sb.]
1. trans. To strike off (corn, etc.) level with the brim of the measure.
14[?]. Lat.-Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 588/12. Hostio, to stryche.
1651. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., II. vii. 65. The price must be the same with the true Market price; the measure according to the common measure stricked.
1692. Capt. Smith’s Seaman’s Gram., II. xxi. 134. Thrust your Ladle into the same [sc. the budge-barrel], filling it full of Powder, and then strick it with a Ruler.
2. To prepare (lint) for heckling; also, to heckle (flax, etc.).
1808. Jamieson, s.v., To strick lint, to tie up flax in small handfuls, in preparing it for being milled.
1894. Times, 12 March, 13/5. Flax Machinery…. By means of this breaker the middle operation of ‘stricking’ is dispensed with.
